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{Book Review} Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived

The Run-Up and Backstory to The Old Republic Online Game

This novel takes place in the time right before and during the beginning of the Star Wars Bioware game The Old Republic. The story focuses on three major characters Darth Malgus (The main antagonist from the game), Jedi Knight Aryn Leneer and smuggler Zeerid Korr.

The story begins just as the cutscene from the game begin with the Sith led by Darth Malgus attacking the Jedi temple on Coruscant. We then follow the story of our three characters as their stories all begin to intertwine.

This book is good at keeping things within the Star Wars universe and not going to far outside the box. The author has penned Star Wars related books before and is an established fantasy/science fiction writer and it shows. The characters are multidimensional and in reading the story you begin to understand their motivations for what they do, rather than they just being good guys or bad guys.

A little bit of history is shown as too what led to the run –up to the war and how it was planned, but not enough in my opinion, but then this is a book about characters more so than the struggle between the Sith and the Jedi.

Overall I enjoyed the book. I found it to be a fun read and it fits well into the Star Wars universe and if you are a fan of the new Bioware game based on the Old Republic I think you might enjoy this book as well.

If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I will do my best to respond.